The Macmillan Illustrated Encyclopedia of Myths & LegendsMacmillan, 1989 - 260 pages Fully indexed and containing lavish color illustrations and a wealth of line drawings, this is the most up-to-date, beautiful, and graphically useful reference of its kind on the market today. |
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Page 20
... Heracles to become a god . The labours that Heracles undertook reveal a good deal about ancient Greek civilization . Like other heroes , he had to serve a local ruler , the lord of Tiryns , in the Peloponnese . The mountains and broken ...
... Heracles to become a god . The labours that Heracles undertook reveal a good deal about ancient Greek civilization . Like other heroes , he had to serve a local ruler , the lord of Tiryns , in the Peloponnese . The mountains and broken ...
Page 100
... HERACLES The great hero of the Greeks , and possibly once lord of Tiryns , an ancient citadel in the Peloponnese . He was known to the Romans as Hercules . Heracles was the son of ZEUS and Alcmene , the queen of Tiryns . The goddess ...
... HERACLES The great hero of the Greeks , and possibly once lord of Tiryns , an ancient citadel in the Peloponnese . He was known to the Romans as Hercules . Heracles was the son of ZEUS and Alcmene , the queen of Tiryns . The goddess ...
Page 101
... Heracles should have such luck , and stirred up the Amazons against him . In the desperate fight that followed , Hippolyta was killed by the hero . The tenth labour took Heracles to Spain . His target there was the herd of oxen ...
... Heracles should have such luck , and stirred up the Amazons against him . In the desperate fight that followed , Hippolyta was killed by the hero . The tenth labour took Heracles to Spain . His target there was the herd of oxen ...
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